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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What strategy embodied some human psychology aspects according to Chapter 12?
(a) Tit-for-tat.
(b) Minimax.
(c) Backwards induction.
(d) Madman.

2. Which game is also known as an "assurance game?"
(a) Chicken.
(b) Kriegspiel.
(c) Deadlock.
(d) Stag Hunt.

3. What strategy was the most successful during Axelrod's tournaments?
(a) Backwards induction.
(b) Minimax.
(c) Tit-for-tat.
(d) Madman.

4. When did Robert Axelrod hold his game tournaments?
(a) Late 1970s.
(b) Mid-1950s.
(c) Mid 1990s.
(d) Early 1980s.

5. What game is similar to volunteer's dilemma but is played by only two people?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Bully.
(c) Deadlock.
(d) Stag Hunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first suggested nuclear warfare as a game of chicken?

2. What is the most popular "solution" to the rational to cooperate in Prisoner's Dilemma as explained in Chapter 11?

3. Who came up with the game model centered around two hunters deciding what to hunt for the day?

4. In what month did von Neumann die?

5. In what year was von Neumann appointed Atomic Energy Commissioner?

Short Essay Questions

1. In relation to U.S. bomb development who was Harold Urey?

2. How did von Neumann become the Atomic Energy Commissioner?

3. How did evolutionary game theory come about?

4. Who devised the Stag Hunt game?

5. What was an example of a public nuclear game of chicken and who was involved?

6. What is backwards induction?

7. What is Bully?

8. How did the tournaments operate?

9. Why did von Neumann's views about military technology in modern society change?

10. What is the tit-for-tat strategy?

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